Day 1
Day 2
Day 1
14.00 | WELCOME |
14.10 | KEYNOTE | Sean Macavaney | Chair: Nicola Tonellotto |
SESSION 1: USER SATISFACTION AND PERSONALIZATION | Chair: Guglielmo Faggioli | |
15.10 | Dissatisfaction Induced by Pairwise Swaps | Alessandro Fabris (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy); Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padova); Gian Antonio Susto (University of Padova); Asia J. Biega (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy) |
15.20 | Impressions in Recommender Systems: Present and Future | Fernando Benjamín Pérez Maurera (Politecnico di Milano); Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema (Politecnico di Milano); Pablo Castells (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid); Paolo Cremonesi (Politecnico di Milano) |
15.30 | Knowledge-Enhanced GNN Model for Tailored Recommendations | Salvatore Bufi (Politecnico di Bari); Alberto Carlo Maria Mancino (University Polytechnic of Bari); Antonio Ferrara (Politecnico di Bari); Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari); Eugenio Di Sciascio (Politecnico di Bari) |
15.40 | Cold-start Management in POI Recommendation via Reinforcement Learning and Spatial Proximity Exploration (Abstract) | David Massimo (Free University of Bolzano); Francesco Ricci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) |
15.50 | Personalization in BERT with Adapter Modules and Topic Modelling | Marco Braga (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca); Alessandro Raganato (University of Milano-Bicocca); Gabriella Pasi (UNIMIB) |
16.05 | Serendipity and Diversity Boosting for Personalized Streaming Media Recommendation | Yvan Pannatier (HES-SO); Gaetano Manzo (HES-SO); Gabriel Autès (SRGSSR); Michael Delucia (RTS); Jean-Gabriel Piguet (HES-SO); Jean-Paul Calbimonte (HES-SO) |
16.30 | COFFEE BREAK |
SESSION 2: PRIVACY, FAIRNESS AND EXPLANABILITY | Chair: Antonio Ferrari | |
17.00 | Fairness of Exposure in Forensic Face Rankings | Andrea Atzori (University of Cagliari); Gianni Fenu (University of Cagliari); Mirko Marras (University of Cagliari) |
17.10 | Knowledge-aware Recommendations: Exploring the Interplay of Utility, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Methods | Giacomo Balloccu (University of Cagliari); Ludovico Boratto (University of Cagliari); Christian Cancedda (Politecnico di Torino); Gianni Fenu (University of Cagliari); Mirko Marras (University of Cagliari) |
17.20 | Privatizing Recommendation Datasets with Differential Privacy | Alberto Carlo Maria Mancino (University Polytechnic of Bari); Antonio Ferrara (Politecnico di Bari); Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari); Eugenio Di Sciascio (Politecnico di Bari); Angela Di Fazio (Politecnico di Bari) |
17.30 | Examining Fairness in Graph-Based Collaborative Filtering: A Consumer and Producer Perspective | Dario Di Palma (Politecnico di Bari); Vito Walter Anelli (Polytechnic University of Bari); Daniele Malitesta (Polytechnic University of Bari ); Vincenzo Paparella (Politecnico di Bari); Claudio Pomo (Polytechnic University of Bari); Yashar Deldjoo (Polytechnic University of Bari); Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari) |
17.40 | Towards Ranking Explanation Through Embedding Analysis in Cross-Encoders | Claudio Lucchese (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR, Italy); Salvatore Orlando (University of Venice, Italy); Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR); Alberto Veneri (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & ISTI-CNR) |
17.50 | Consumer Fairness Benchmark in Recommendation | Ludovico Boratto (University of Cagliari); Gianni Fenu (University of Cagliari); Mirko Marras (University of Cagliari); Giacomo Medda (University of Cagliari) |
18.00 | SKET X: A Visual Analytics Tool for Explaining Knowledge Extraction Results | Fabio Giachelle (University of Padova); Stefano Marchesin (Università di Padova); Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padova) |
18.10 | Towards Explainable Educational Recommendation through Path Reasoning Methods | Neda Afreen (University of Cagliari); Giacomo Balloccu (University of Cagliari); Ludovico Boratto (University of Cagliari); Gianni Fenu (University of Cagliari); Mirko Marras (University of Cagliari) |
18.2 | CLOSING |
Day 2
9.00 | KEYNOTE | Christine Bauer | Chair: Franco Maria Nardini |
SESSION 3: NLP | Chair: Fabrizio Silvestri | |
10.00 | Enhance Adversarial Authorship Verification with Data Augmentation: Extended Abstract | Silvia Corbara (Scuola Normale Superiore); Alejandro Moreo (ISTI-CNR) |
10.10 | Uncovering H0moglyph 4ttacks for Hate Speech Detection via Visually-Grounded Embeddings – Extended Abstract | Gianluca Sperduti (ISTI-CNR); Alejandro Moreo (ISTI-CNR) |
10.20 | Fact-Checking at Scale with Crowdsourcing: Experiments and Lessons Learned | David La Barbera (University Of Udine); Michael Soprano (University of Udine); Kevin Roitero (University of Udine); Eddy Maddalena (University Of Udine); Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine) |
10.30 | Exploring Detection of LLM-generated News in Italian | Giovanni Puccetti (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Informazione); Andrea Esuli (CNR, Italy) |
10.40 | Fauno: The Italian Large Language Model that will leave you senza parole! | Andrea Bacciu (Sapienza University of Rome); Giovanni Trappolini (Sapienza University of Rome); Andrea Santilli (Sapienza University of Rome); Emanuele Rodola (Sapienza University of Rome); Fabrizio Silvestri (Sapienza University of Rome) |
10.55 | Incremental Mixture of Normalizing Flows for Dynamic Topic Modelling | Federico Ravenda (Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)); Andrea Raballo (Università della Svizzera Italiana); Antonietta Mira (Università della Svizzera italiana); Fabio Crestani (Universita della Svizzera italiana) |
11.10 | COFFEE BREAK |
SESSION 4: EFFICIENT AND DOMAIN SPECIFIC APPROACHES | Chair: Raffaele Perego | |
Part 1: Efficiency | |
11.40 | Accelerating Learned Sparse Indexes Via Term Impact Decomposition | Joel Mackenzie (The University of Queensland); Antonio Mallia (Amazon Alexa); Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne); Matthias Petri (Amazon) |
11.50 | Towards Improved QUBO Formulations of IR Tasks for Quantum Annealers | Riccardo Pellini (Politecnico di Milano); Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema (Politecnico di Milano); Paolo Cremonesi (Politecnico di Milano) |
12.00 | Early-Exit Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search for Efficient Dense Retrieval | Francesco Busolin (Universiity Ca Foscari of Venice); Claudio Lucchese (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Salvatore Orlando (University of Venice, Italy); Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR, Italy); Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR); Salvatore Trani (ISTI, CNR, Italy) |
Part 2: Domain Specific Approaches | |
12.10 | Relational Search and its Application to Investigative Intelligence Scenarios | Stéphane Campinas (Siren); Matteo Catena (Siren); Renaud Delbru (Siren) |
12.20 | Extracting Problems, Solutions and Advantages from Patents with Natural Language Processing | Giovanni Puccetti (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Informazione); Vito Giordano (University of Pisa); Gualtiero Fantoni (University of Pisa) |
12.30 | An Analysis of a Methodology and Experimental Results for the Retrieval of Clinical Trials | Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (University of Padua); Guglielmo Faggioli (University of Padova); Stefano Marchesin (Università di Padova) |
12.40 | Multimodal Neural Databases | Giovanni Trappolini (Sapienza University of Rome); Andrea Santilli (Sapienza University of Rome); Emanuele Rodola (Sapienza University of Rome); Alon Halevy (Recruit); Fabrizio Silvestri (Sapienza University of Rome) |
12.50 | Behaviour-aware Tourist Profiles Data Generation | Pavel Merinov (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) |
13.05 | LUNCH |
SESSION 5: EVALUATION | Chair: Nicola Ferro | |
15.00 | IR Systems Evaluation via Generalized Linear Models | Guglielmo Faggioli (University of Padova); Nicola Ferro (University of Padova); Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen) |
15.10 | Towards a Repository for Information Retrieval Runs | Elias Bassani (Independent) |
15.20 | Does LambdaMART Do What You Expect? | Claudio Lucchese (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Federico Marcuzzi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Salvatore Orlando (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) |
15.30 | A Spatial Approach to Predict Performance of Conversational Search Systems | Guglielmo Faggioli (University of Padova); Nicola Ferro (University of Padova); Cristina I Muntean (ISTI-CNR); Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR); Nicola Tonellotto (University of Pisa) |
15.40 | Beyond Optimal: Selecting Pareto-Optimal Solutions for Search and Recommendation | Vincenzo Paparella (Politecnico di Bari); Vito Walter Anelli (Polytechnic University of Bari); Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR, Italy); Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR); Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari) |
15.50 | CLOSING |